J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mont Blanc from near St Martin 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
Mont Blanc from near St Martin 1802
D04485
Turner Bequest LXXIII 75
Pencil on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘above St Martin’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 75’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Mont Blanc was made near St Martin. Turner also made a slightly more developed sketch of the same view on folio 74 verso of this sketchbook (D04484).

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Mont Blanc from near St Martin 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-mont-blanc-from-near-st-martin-r1133114, accessed 29 March 2024.